Robotics Group
Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Dept.
University of Patras

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Contact is not available (e-mail: koust@upatras.gr) Dr. Panagiotis N. Koustoumpardis is a Research & Teaching Associate at the Robotics Group (http://robotics.mech.upatras.gr) of the Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Dept., University of Patras, Greece, where he received a Mechanical Eng. Diploma and a Ph.D. degree in Robotics. He teaches in the courses of ‘Robotics’, ‘Industrial Automation’, ‘Electrical Circuits and Electrical Machines’ and ‘Kinematics of Mechanisms and Machines’. He is the founder and scientific director of the robotics voluntary action Robots@MET at the University of Patras. His main research interests are robotics, intelligent control, machine learning, neural networks, intelligent sensor fusion and machine vision for robotics applications and intelligent robotic handling and force control of non-rigid materials as well as human-robot cooperation for handling non-rigid materials. He has been involved in most of the Robotics Group research projects and he authored 36 publications in journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor in three international journals and special issues, editor in one book, co-chair in one international conference and reviewer of 16 journals and 18 international conferences. He was awarded the prize for the best regular paper in one conference and for first places in numerous robotic competitions. He is also a judge and coach in educational robotics competitions. Founding member (from 2001) and scientific supervisor (from 2019) of Robotics Club, as well as area coordinator of the organizing and scientific committee of the Open Technologies in Education.